Improvement in sash-fasteners



rrEn TATES PATENT QFFIGE.

PETER MEYER, OF IOWVA CITY, IOWA.

IMPROVEMENT IN SASH-FASTENERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent'No. 164,750, dated June22,1875; application filed May 22, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PETER MEYER, of Iowa City, Johnson county, Iowa,have invented a the window frame or casing, and O the spring band orlatch, which is screwed or otherwise fastened by its flattened upper.end to the sash-frame, bearing by its middle part toward thewindow-frame, and being curved at its lower part into a handle, to bereadily taken hold of when raising or lowering the sash. The middle partof the spring band or latch has a perforation, G, that locks by itsspring action on pins D, set at suitable distance in the window-frame,so that the sash,

on releasing the latch, may readily be raised or lowered, and, bycatching over a pin, be retained securely in the required position. Theupper and lower sashes are also looked securely in closed positions bythe corresponding pins, preventing thereby the opening of either sashfrom the outside and their rattling by the wind. A stop-pin, E, of thesash back of the spring-latch defines the rear ward motion of the same,so that it clears the pins on being released, without being thrown backtoo far, and injuring thereby the spring action of the band or latch.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent A sash-fastener composed of a spring band or latch,(3, attached to the sash, and provided with a perforation, O, at itsmiddle part, and a lower handle part, in combination with thelocking-pins 1) of the windowframe. to be opera-ted substantially asshown and described.

PETER MEYER. Witnesses:

HORACE KIMBALL, CHRIST. S'rEMLER.

